Playing with the enemy : a baseball prodigy, a world at war, and a long journey home.

By Gary W. Moore
796.357 M

The author lives in Naperville and based the book on his father’s experiences.

The Graveyard Book

By Neil Gaiman.
      FIC Gaiman

The winner of the 2009 Newbery Medal tells the story of a boy who is raised by ghosts in a cemetery after his family is killed.

Deadline

By Chris Crutcher

Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world.

Dope Sick

By Walter Dean Myers

Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, 17-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a strange man who shows him different turning points where he could have made better choices.

The Killer Weekend

By Ridley Pearson

Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark

By Ridley Pearson

The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans: a Feast of Short Fiction

By Carmen Tafolla.

Readers will find wit, wisdom, and hope in 16 stories by an author from South Texas.

Playing With Matches

by Brian Katcher 

While trying to find a girl who will date him, high school junior Leon Sanders befriends a lonely, disfigured female classmate. Playing with someone’s heart is as dangerous as playing with matches.

Angry Management

by Chris Crutcher  

A collection of short stories, featuring characters from Chris Crutcher’s earlier books, dealing with insecurity, anger, and prejudice. But, they are also about love, freedom, and power. About survival. And hope.

Super Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
330L

Whether investigating a solution to global warming or exploring if heart attacks, hurricanes, and highway deaths share a commonality, the authors mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.

Stones into Schools

by Greg Mortenson
371.8 M  

A dramatic first-person narrative by Greg Mortenson picking up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003

Paper Towns

by John Green
FIC Green  

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

Voted #1 in the 2009 Teens Top 10 survey. www.ala.org/teenstopten